AN AMERICAN IDEA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 149, 2 May 1879, Page 2

AN AMERICAN IDEA.

—c> Tho annexation of England by the United States is, in the opinion of the Now York Herald, merely a qnestion of time. England's trade is departing; her commercial supremacy is threatened from half a dozen quarters; her manufacturers maintain themselves in foreign markets largely by turning out shoddy products; her finances are threatened with disorder; her people are over-taxed, armaments are too costly for even'her wealth; she is too heavily mortgaged to keep up her style of living; and there is but one way to save her, and that is by annexation to. the United States, Mr Gladstone, the New York Herald thiuks, is beginning dimly to seo this, Tho march of democratic ideas in England also leads to this conclusion and none other. The New York Herald is not certain that the ArtM' ican people, who have rejected Cuba Lid will not have Mexico, 'would consent to receive England into their communion of States—the advantages would bo so greatly on the side of the old country. But there is no doubt that Mr Ewarts would readily correspond with Lord Beaconsfield on the subject, and if necessary pave the way / for England to knock at'the doors of ■ Congress for admission into the Union. There she would be wife, and in these troublesome time's it is a good deal to be merely safe.